Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-03


Friday. June >, 1857.
MOUNT ErNA is again In eruption, and
earthquakes Of great severity are caus.
ing trouble In Mexico. What is getting
wrong with this terrestrial ball, any
how?
WElike to acknowledge good thing
when we see it. This is the reason we
remark that the Grafton Standard Is one
of the best edited papers in the State
both editorially and locally.
We wou Id suggest to some of our ex.
changes who are nourishing booms for
various candidates in 1888 that the
sooner the said booms are boomed the
sooner they will collapse. Don't let
them bust before their time.
The President and his wife are in the
Adirondack mountains enjoying the
beauties of nature "far from the mad
ding crowd" Mr.. Cleveland has been
trying bis luck catching trout, and, I'M
less the dispatches prevaricate, he has
been very successful.
We are of the opinion that the Presi-
dent does not intend to call an extra
session Of Congress to consider tariff
legislation. lie doubtless knows that ii
would be useless expense, for Sam
Randall aud the Republicans are able to
prevent anything like fair revision of
the present Ubiquitous tariff laws.
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Mr.. DoRsHEIMER, the editor OF the
New York Star, proposes to raise 1925, 900
by popular subscriptions TO help erect a
monument to General Grant. We have
no doubt he could raise double that sum
IL the monument should be erected in
Washington, the proper place for the
last long sleep of the dead General.
MR.. JAMES G. BLAINE intends to sail
for Europe next week, where he will
remain, he says, about year. just
what effect this will have on his aspira-
tons for the Republican Presidential
nomination, is unknown. 1t may be
that he leaves his plans in good hands,
or It may be that he has no desire for
that empty honor.
THE spectators of Chicago are pre-
pairing to make a big deal in wheat.
Their plan is to buy up all the grain in
sight at low figure, run it up to about
$l.25, and then sell. The farmer who
grows the whea. finds it impossible
to make any money out of his crop,
but 1t is a cold day when the spectators
cannot squeeze handsome profit from
IL.
EACH year as the veterans march to
the cemeteries to cover the graves of
their fallen comrades with beautiful
flowers their numbers are seen to be
growing less and less. This is sad re-
Election, but it is encouraging to know
that the pension lists do NOT show any
great falling off. Indeed, the persons
who draw pensions seem to get more
numerous as the years 60 by.
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WE don't think we will ever say any
thing against the hustle any more. Miss
Annie Jordan, while walking on rail-
road track in Ohio the other day, was
struck by locomotive and thrown fully
thirty feet. Or course it was thought
she was killed, but investigation showed
she was only slightly hurt. A large
hustle which she wore had broken the
force of the conclusion and thus saved
her life.
THERE seems to be a determined at
tempt on the part of the railroads TO
make the interstate commerce law very
obnoxious to the people by taking adj
vantage Of every opportunity it gives to
Cypress travellers and shippers. This
attempt will be failure, and will work
more harm to the railroads than to the
law. Public sentiment is demanding
that the railroads shall also be held to
the letter of the law, and as they give